if poser 5 is not a full featured web browser, sole purpose to surf the web, the firewall won't allow it to connect to the internet.( every attempt will pop up query screen from firewall) 2) the more security coding in any application, the faster that there will be cracks developed for it. yes plural as the harder the challenge the more crackers will work on it. 3)software dongles scream for crackers to hack them. a challenge code is a software dongle. 4) the comment saying that there won't be a crack is the type of comment that guarantees that there will be a warez version extremely quickly.it is a blatant invitation to do so. just got reminded of something, even physical dongles can be broken by the hacker teams that are out there. yes, CL has the right to try to protect thier property, and we have the right to choose if to purchase / upgrade or not. while I think that cl has gone a bit overboard, it is thier right to have the piece of mind by trying to protect thier property. linux is open source, there are commercial apps for linux, and it isn't easy to find anyone hacking commercial apps for linux, as there is enough free software for it that you really do have a choice of which to use. ( Blender and the gimp are good examples) yup, even saw a hacked version of maya for linux ( boy was that one tempting, but stilll only using the m$ based ple) honest people respect the restrictions, dishonest people won't. it's that simple.

Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: A few words about the Poser 5 registration/installation procedure